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Wreck

noun

Something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation. "Thanks to that quack I am a human wreck"

An accident that destroys a ship at sea. Synonym: shipwreck.

A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles). Synonym: crash.

A ship that has been destroyed at sea.

verb

Smash or break forcefully. Synonyms: bust up, wrack.

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"Wreck" Quotes from Famous Books

... if to hide their trembling and to still her passionate tongue. Jean, in his absorption, magnified his perceptions. Not yet was Ellen Jorth afraid of this man, but she feared the situation. Jean's heart was at bursting pitch. All within him seemed chaos—a wreck of beliefs and convictions. Nothing was true. He would wake presently out of a nightmare. Yet, as surely as he quivered there, he felt the imminence of a great moment—a lightning ...

— To the Last Man • Zane Grey

... water. Mr. Swift perfected a new type of craft, and in the fourth book of the series, called "Tom Swift and His Submarine," you may read how he went after a sunken treasure. The party had many adventures, and were in no little danger from their enemies before they reached the wreck with ...

— Tom Swift and his Wireless Message • Victor Appleton

... stands at present it is inferior far to the lawless anarchy of the aborigines. Among them, at least, the conditions are more normal, they offer better balance between faculty and execution; they are by far more propitious to happiness and order than is this broken wreck of civilisation that we call France. It is to equality alone," he continued, warming to his subject, "that Nature has attached the preservation of our social faculties, and all legislation that aims at being efficient should be directed to the establishment of equality. As it is, ...

— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini

... old lady—who had known him, and his brothers, too, when they were children—in the modest parlor in the wing, with the white curtains and light wall-paper covered with figures, where the Nabob's mother tried to revive her past as an artisan, with the aid of some relics saved from the wreck. ...

— The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet

... high water. The tide falls from eight to twelve feet, and when the water makes out between the wharves some of the picturesqueness makes out also. A corroded section of stovepipe mailed in barnacles, or the skeleton of a hoopskirt protruding from the tide mud like the remains of some old-time wreck, is apt to break ...

— An Old Town By The Sea • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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